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Volume 19, Number 4
June 2002
GP Mentor
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Consider Solo Practice
By Florencio (Larry) Ramirez
Although popular culture's typical lawyer is an impeccably dressed member of a large if not colossal firm, it is far from the only option for law school graduates. Many lawyers find the hands-on responsibility and freedom of solo or small firm practice suits them to a T. Having split my 25 years of law practice between the two, I am well suited to offer a perspective on the advantages and drawbacks of each.
I have been a solo since 1995 and before that practiced in firm settings of between four and 12 lawyers. When I first thought about going solo, I was very apprehensive. It would be quite a change not to have associates at my beck and call or not to have a managing partner to make all the management decisions and suffer all (or most) of the headaches associated with running the law office. Even with 18 years' experience under my belt, I found the idea of running a law office all by myself an intimidating and perhaps overwhelming prospect; but, nevertheless, I decided to go for it.
Overhead, including phone bills, rent, and salaries, was now my responsibility. Every decision (and I mean every) from toilet paper to letterhead, hourly rates to telephone rates, was now my problem. In addition, I had to concern myself with managing a caseload and meeting not only the deadlines associated with law practice but also business deadlines like taxes, rent, and payroll. At first, this was not a very appetizing proposition.
I was fortunate, however. Unlike many new solo practitioners, I wasn't trying to establish a new practice; I already had clients and a thriving practice. I had hired secretaries and legal assistants before, and having been a partner, I knew a little bit about the components of overhead and understood the need to control them and not overextend myself. I had seen many a young lawyer start a practice only to have financial and professional over-commitment quickly take their toll.
I spent time looking for office space that would really suit me. I knew the expensive space near the courthouse wasn't necessarily the best location. Clients will find you if you are a good and fair lawyer. When I found my space, I did not go out and buy expensive new furniture, computers, or all the latest technology. What I did was start slow. I knew that it would be a while before my billings would catch up with overhead, so I made sure I had a cash reserve to help with expenses until the money started coming in.
I also tried to plan ahead as much as I could. I looked into different phone plans and utilities and added up installation costs. I added in necessary costs like workers' compensation insurance, malpractice insurance, and renter's insurance. I wanted to be sure that practicing law by myself would be something I really could afford to do.
I realized there was a lot of stuff I had taken for granted when I was with the firm: letterhead, envelopes, and paper, for example. I needed a sign painter so that people could identify my office. And what about the Yellow Pages-I wanted people to be able to find me in the phone book. I had no idea how to go about setting up those things, so I had a lot of new projects to figure out.
I knew I needed to hire a secretary, but I was undecided what other staff I might need. Fortunately, I had hired secretaries before, but their salaries were always negotiated by someone else. I had a legal assistant at my firm-could I afford one now? (It soon became apparent that I couldn't afford not to hire one!) And benefits-health insurance and retirement plans for employees can be cost-prohibitive for solo practitioners, given that they come out of the fees you earn.
Despite all of my apprehensions, I now honestly can say that being a solo has been a good experience. One of the drawbacks about large firms is the way they can get bogged down in bureaucracy. Their several levels of decision makers sometimes mean that decisions take forever or are never made at all; the many levels of accountability can be similarly tedious.
Making all the decisions and having all the responsibility are both good and bad, but mostly good. I am accountable to myself, my staff, and my clients; but, for the most part, I have much greater control over my life. When I was with a firm, my bar activities were always an issue; because billable hour quotas are a thing of the past (as are nights, weekends, and holidays at the office) I now can use my time in a variety of ways. This doesn't mean I don't have pressures and concerns, but they're the result of my own decisions, not the management committee of my firm. I choose the cases I accept, and I choose the clients I represent. If I want to work fiendish hours or leave early to go to my son's baseball game or play golf, I am accountable only to myself. I'll probably live longer, and I'm certainly happier in my practice.
Solo practice has made me more flexible and patient in many areas. I don't take as much insurance defense work as I once did, and I am much happier for it. I've developed a greater interest in technology because solos have to be more organized and efficient with their time.
Solo practice is not for everyone, but don't let the "what ifs" keep you from checking it out if you're interested. Having taken the step, and liked what I found, I likely will practice the rest of my career as a solo.
Florencio (Larry) Ramirez is a sole practitioner in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and a former chair of the General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section.


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42nd annual traditional event nets over $3,400
COZAD—Cozad's 42nd Annual March of Dimes Cake Auction generated a good response recently with just over $3,400 raised during the traditional event which was staged at Chipper Hall. A Snicker's cheesecake donated by Candy Clark had created the most interest of the event, selling for $100. Overall, 187 items were included in the bidding. The fund raising auction was sponsored by the Cozad Jaycees.—reported in the Tri-City Trib.
Sherman County bank officers sentenced
BROKEN BOW—Attorney General Jon Bruning has announced that four officers of the Sherman County Bank entered no contest pleas and were fined for legal lending limit violations in Sherman County Court in Loup City. Charges stemmed from the failure of the Loup City bank last February when officers allowed the bank to get in over its head. Lending limit violations are currently a Class IV misdemeanor, punished by a fine of $100-$500 for each count which had reached 25 counts for one officer.—reported in the Custer County Chief.
Hydroplant reopening delayed but hopeful
OGALLALA—Getting the turbine generator of the Kingsley Hydroelectric Plant at Lake Ogallala repaired and ready for operation this spring is taking longer than expected, according to officials. Technicians from Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District had disassembled the plant's 272-ton turbine generator and shipped several of its parts to Voith Hydro of York, PA, for repairs. The reassembly was to begin on Jan. 1, but a number of delays has pushed back plans. Officials are still hopeful to have the plant back to operation by the spring as parts are expected to arrive the first part of March.—reported in the Keith County News.
'Pink Out' raises funds for cancer awareness
CURTIS—Eustis-Farnam Public Schools recently held its first ever "Pink Out" night to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness. The event took place on Jan. 28 when the schools hosted the Elwood Pirates basketball game. Several activities took place during the week and on the night of the game. T-shirts, pink wristbands and pink spirit beads were sold, there was a cake raffle, a hoop shoot and a performance by the dance team. Pink ribbons and stickers were also handed out. The total amount raised was over $2,100 which was sent to the American Cancer Society in Kearney.—reported in the Frontier County Enterprise.
Arnold students receive national award
ARNOLD—Elementary students and fourth grade teacher Berni Crow recently gathered in the school's gymnasium to receive the second place "Keep America Beautiful" award for Youth Waste Reduction and Recycling. The award was presented by Linda Studnicka, environmental projects coordinator for the Keep Loup Basin Beautiful. The national award recognized the students for an enrichment program focusing on "The Three R's—Reduce, Reuse and Recycle." Students also cleaned road ditches, the state park and the track after meets as well as the school grounds in a "Litter Free Zone" program.—reported in the Arnold Sentinel.
Arnold/Callaway send two wrestlers to state
CALLAWAY—The Arnold/Callaway wresting team qualified its 135 and 285 pounders for the State Wrestling Tournament that began Feb. 18. Junior, Logan Glendy and senior, Joe Osterhoudt, who remains the only Callaway High School athlete to have ever qualified for state in four sports, were the two qualifying wrestlers. Glendy took second at the D-3 District Tournament, and Osterhoudt rolled an Amherst opponent in the consolation finals to secure a state berth—reported in the Callaway Courier.
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Governor Fallin speaks at a press event to mark the delivery by Chrysler of CNG Dodge Ram trucks to the state of Oklahoma. The governor said the use of CNG vehicles by state agencies will save Oklahoma taxpayers millions of dollars in fuel costs. Governor Fallin also noted the use of CNG fuel promotes Oklahoma-made natural gas which, in turn, supports the creation of more Oklahoma jobs. Joining the governor at the event were (left to right) Casey Shell, director of operations at the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, John Vance of John Vance Motors, Peter Grady, vice president of network development and fleet for Chrysler, and Oklahoma Energy Secretary Michael Ming.
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These students were awarded the Office of Disability Services (ODS) Student Leadership Award for Leadership and serving on the ODS student panel. They presented to the APAC Brownbag – Improving the College Experience for Students with Disabilities; The Chancellor's Administrative Counsel, and Student Affairs Administrators and Directors. It took a lot of courage for these students to share their personal journey and the challenges they face as a college student at the UIS.
Recipients for the 2017 Academic Year
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My College Experience
by Mary Hettel
Originally published by The Journal, University of Illinois Springfield
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As my graduation date is in the near sight, I want to reflect on my college career and those who made it possible for me to get to where I am today. It has not been easy and not always fun, but people's belief in me kept my inspiration alive. I have had easier classes than others, have met countless amazing people, had good times, not so easy experiences, spent many more hours on homework, just as any other college student. Right? Oh yeah, did I mention I have Cerebral Palsy? It only seems fair to start my undergraduate story at the beginning, so here it goes.
It started in mid August 2005, at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale just taking my general education courses. I did enroll as a social work major, but I really did not know what I wanted to study. At the same time, I was learning how to deal with my disability in a new environment, away from home. I literally taught myself how to hire personal assistants, and how to use my accommodations in college while figuring out all of the aspects of being a freshman in college. Somehow, I managed to get through that semester. I really enjoyed my new independence.
I went to see my school teams in action at both football and basketball games. I distinctly remember one time, before a football game, the SIUC band danced right on by me. They also had a recreation program for people with disabilities that I took full advantage of. I watched the Chicago Bears play in the super bowl game with a bunch of friends, and watched the White Sox win the World Series. Sitting in my first class starting my third year, something did not feel right. Within the week, my parents came down and took me home to see my psychiatrist and planned on taking me back to school. I guess that wasn't meant to be as my doctor put me in the hospital to manage my depression and told my parents to withdrawal me from my classes and move me back home.
After taking the semester off to feel better and making some changes in my life, I took online courses through SIUC, that spring, summer and fall as I still wanted to go back to the campus I loved, but it never happened. I went to my community college and earned my associate's degree. It was there, where I met the education recruiter and finally enrolled at the University of Illinois at Springfield to finish up my bachelor's degree in Social Work!
I have to admit that I was accepted here as well as SIUC, I choose the other school because it was bigger and I was used to big schools, it was also more accessible as Founder's wasn't built yet, and I wanted the experience of being on a huge campus. I do not regret going there as I had awesome experiences while I spent time in the southern portion of our state. I rarely regret anything because it is another lesson learned in life.
UIS welcomed me with open arms and hasn't closed them yet! From the caring professors in the Social Work department, to the amazing staff at the Office of Disability Services, the people from the Counseling Center, to the amazing food service providers, the inclusion of the student life office and other students made it possible for me to be successful! To all of you, thank you.
I was hospitalized at Memorial once again for depression, but after I was discharged I was right back to school. I knew a wonderful person who happened to be a personal assistant, before I ever thought to apply here. She has helped me find so many great caregivers to make sure that all of my needs are met. Thank you to all of you as well!
The most important part of my support system is my family back home in Marseilles, Il. You guys mean the world to me; I know how lucky I am to have a loving family. Thank you so much for always being there for me! And to God and Jesus, my Lord, thank you for making my life not only possible, but so enriched, diverse, and fulfilled in so many ways!
Outside of academic work there is so much that is offered on campus. The plays, shows, demonstrations, concerts have also enhanced my college experience. One of my favorite places to be on campus was TRAC, watching my basketball teams in action. Perhaps, my favorite game was when the boys fought so hard to win and advanced to the first round of the play offs. The game was exciting as it was so close, not to mention that my sister was here to watch it with me!
This school year, I have had the honor, pleasure, joy, and responsibilities to be the president of Delta Sigma Omicron, to promote disability awareness. Thanks to all of those who have helped make it successful.
Well that's my college journey. A well rounded one too! Looking into the near future I hope to start my social work career in Springfield for a couple of years before pursuing a master's degree and perhaps a doctorate. I will never stop learning regardless of what happens. Jesus has laid a path for me to follow and that's what I will do every day that I live.


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Through Grace Church we ought to probably say for our first time guests we believe in two things that make the church what it ought to be. One is love. And that's an honest kind of biblical love. The other is sound doctrine. And so our commitment is not only to love the brothers and exercise the ministry of spiritual gifts and the responsibilities of fellowship to one another, but it is also to systematically verse by verse teach the Bible. Believing that if we protect the saints, the saints will do the work of the ministry.
And so in our study of the Scripture, we find ourselves in the book of Acts which is the historical record of the early church from the day of Pentecost through those early years. And we have come in our study to the 18th chapter and really begun what is one message in three parts as often we find is the case. We're studying the subject generally from Judaism to Jesus. And beginning in 18:18 the Holy Spirit gives us three incidents or three little experiences that illustrate to us the transition that was taking place from Judaism to Jesus.
When Christianity was established and a new covenant was introduced, there were many Jews who found it very difficult to make all of the transition very rapidly. And so there were people in the midst of transition, coming to Jesus Christ from Judaism and caught somewhere in the transition. And this occurs all through the book of Acts. Now in our study here, we found the apostle Paul. Though fully understanding Christ, though a believer in every sense, the Apostle of the gospel of grace and the gospel of God and knowing full well his commission and his message still taking a Nazarite vow which is something that was strictly Judaistic.
And we see even Paul in transition. And then we saw Apollos didn't we in verses 24 to 28. And here we met a disciple of John the Baptist, an Old Testament saint. A man ready for Messiah who even believed that Jesus was that Messiah but didn't understand the cross, didn't understand the Resurrection so he was really an Old Testament saint who only knew that Jesus was the Messiah and didn't know all that Jesus had done.
And so we met Apollos in transition. And we come in to this study to the third section of our transitional study, verses 1 to 7 of chapter 19 and we meet a group of 12 men who also are in transition. Now remember this, that the whole of Judaism pervaded all of these people's lives, Christianity came in and it took a while for all of the adjustments to take place. In some cases like Paul, he couldn't let go of some old patterns. Like Apollus he just didn't know the whole Gospel.
And like these 12, they too were short of full knowledge. And so the spirit had to bring them along and individual circumstances to a full understanding of Christ and Christianity. Now the question that's going to key our discussion this morning is one that I'm taking from a rather pertinent scene that we all face today in the area of Christianity. And that is chapter 19, verse 2 where Paul says, "have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?"
Now that question posed in 19:2, "have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed" has become the favorite question of a modern movement in Christianity. And it's not that I am here for the purpose of having a fight with any other Christians or egoistically declaring my own theology or trying to convince myself and you that I'm right and they're wrong. The point of view that I take here is simply the exposition of the text. But I want to approach it in the light of a current movement because then I think you can see its significance.
We live in a day when the movement that we know of is Pentecostalism or if you will the later movement begun in 1960 called the charismatic movement has posed this question as the question to ask Christians. "Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?" The view that they take is that you can be a Christian and not possess the Holy Spirit. And at some point after your salvation you then by a certain activity allowed through certain information to come to the knowledge of the fact that the Spirit is available to you and that you can receive the Holy Spirit in certain ways.
Now this view is held by many Pentecostals. And perhaps not all of them would hold it in the same technical sense; some would no doubt say that the Christian has the Holy Spirit in a limited sense. But not in the sense of permanent personal full and dwelling. And so they would make a distinction between possessing the Holy Spirit and possessing the fullness of the Spirit or the Baptism of the Spirit. But really it boils down to the same thing. If you say a person receives a part of the Spirit or a limited sense of the Spirit, then you're saying in effect that the person hasn't received the Spirit at all.
Or the Spirit is who He is and He must come in the fullness of who He is. Jesus promised that we would receive the Spirit as salvation then he must have meant the Spirit as the Spirit is. And to draw the conclusion that the Spirit comes in part and then later on in fullness is not biblical. There's no such distinction made. For example in 1 Corinthians 12:13, "but rather that we receive the Holy Spirit or without any qualification." In fact if you wanted to illustrate that you can illustrate it in the sense of Christ.
Many people said that "well we receive Jesus as Savior but not as Lord." And then later on made Him Lord of their light. That is inaccurate. Jesus is Lord. And you receive Him for who He is. And the same is true of the Holy Spirit. There are no degrees in receiving the Holy Spirit. As in the case of Christ it was said "God gives not the Spirit by measure." In other words He doesn't dose out the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is given in the fullness of who He is.
And we're going to approach this question to try to show that the Christian, whoever he is, receives the Holy Spirit in full permanent, personal in dwelling from the moment of salvation. And this is an important question. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been asked this. People say to me, "Have you received the Holy Spirit?" And I say, "Of course." And one fellow said, "Oh, I didn't realize. You're one of us." I said, "Well I don't know about that, I might be one of you, what are you?"
Yeah I had received the Holy Spirit. So you don't need to ask me that question. But I'm not sure that I received the Holy Spirit under the conditions that this person assumed you received the Holy Spirit. But that is a very pertinent question. And you constantly are hearing about this. And that people are having to face the problem of what do you do with this massive movement that we call the charismatic movement that so dominates at least the media of Christianity.
And is so much a problem being introduced to us on a personal basis by people that we know. Now we are told that the charismatic movement and this is told to us of course by the people in it began in 1960, the modern one. The preliminary to that began in 1900. And the old line Pentecostalism which resulted in Assemblies of God and ____ Churches and things like that. But this whole thing began about 1900. And the question that always lingers in my mind is, well what happens to everybody before that? It's nice for the people since 1900; it's not so nice for everybody who lived before that.
If the only way to receive the Holy Spirit is through the manifestation of this particular thing, then all of these people historically when that did not exist, have been cheated by God of the fullness of that which God intended for His church and that's a problem in my mind historically.
David Duplessis who is a spokesman for this particular movement and you always see his name associated with all of their writings and with much of their conference work, said this and I quote him. "At the turn of the century, there was no Pentecostal movement. Today it consists of a community of more than 10 million souls that can be found in every country under the sun."
Now Duplessis went on to say this, "what happened during the years from Acts to 1900 was that the church lost its faith and hence lost the miracle gifts and lost the accompaniment of the Holy Spirit." Quoting him again he said this. "The Holy Spirit continued in control until the close of the first century. When He was largely rejected in His position as leader of the church usurped by man." Now that is the comment of one who is in the movement. It seems a very strange theology to assume that the Holy Spirit can only control the church until the end of the first century, then He lost control and man took it over for 1800 years.
And finally after 1800 years of struggle, the Holy Spirit got control again. My God is not such a God who is victimized by men. And I think that's part of the historical problem that these folks have to face. That you cannot assume a sovereign God. You cannot assume a Christ who said I will build My church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. You cannot assume that the Apostle Paul who said, "Christ is the head of the church." Said that on the hope that God wouldn't lose control. That's quite an assumption and to infringe upon the power of God.
Now let me add a footnote and as I said at the beginning, I'm not speaking on this because I pulled it out of the hat, but because it's in the past. I don't have any axe to grind. But the reason I'm concerned about it is not that I want to detract from these people or that I want to consider them not brothers in Christ for many of them are. But the reason that I want to speak on this is because I believe in my heart that the primary thing that the believer is to do in the world is exalt God.
I believe that. And I'm sure you do, don't you? The primary thing for a believer to do in the world is exalt God. And I believe that it does not exalt God when you hold a wrong view of Him, of His Son or of the Holy Spirit. I think in fact that grieves the Holy Spirit. And so what I say I say in order that you might understand that a wrong view of the Holy Spirit which subtracts anything from the dimension of his fullness is a slight against the Holy Spirit.
And so we're not just talking about little picky things. We're talking about the proper exaltation of God Himself in His Spirit. And it's important. Now can we biblically or theologically defend the fact that everything went wrong for 1800 years and God finally got control in the end time. I really think you'd have a hard time proving that if you carefully read the Bible and see that God is in control of everything. In addition to that, these folks would tell us that the movement as we know it today is then patterned on the book of Acts. And what everybody needed to do is get back to the book of Acts and that the book of Acts becomes the norm for the behavior of the Christian.
That the fact that you could be saved and get the Holy Spirit later is based on the book of Acts. Well ___ if you start basing everything on the book of Acts, you're gonna find yourself in a lot of trouble. Because then there's justification for us to do what Paul did. Take Nazarite vows, cut our hair and then have to go to Jerusalem and burn them in the Temple. It's going to be a little tough since there's no temple. If you want to take anything that is transitional in the book of Acts, then how do you arbitrarily decide what you take and what you don't take?
If you make the book of Acts the norm, then you got tremendous problems. You're going to have to allow for revelation current today. You're going to have to allow for Apostles today. You're going to have to allow for all of the signs and wonders and miracles that accompanied the early church and the various manifestations. Not just in some segments of Christianity, but throughout unqualified. There are many problems.
So there are two questions that we really face here. The historical problem of 1800 years when this didn't exist and God was supposedly according to one man out of control. And secondly the fact that if you take the book of Acts for the norm, you run into some tremendous problems. Now I hope that we can shed some light on this. As we've said, the book of Acts is a transitional book. And I want you to learn these things because I want you to be able to answer these things when they're asked of you. And so this is not an end in itself, but this is a means to an end for you to teach others.
So as we see in the book of Acts is a transition. The new covenant comes, the old covenant has died and as the book of Hebrews says, "It fades away, it decays and grows old." But as the new covenant arrives, the people come to Christ which is a momentary miracle; they still find it difficult to make the full transition. And so in the book of Acts, there are various transitional things occurring. There are some old things that just kind of die slowly. Some old forms like for example, the early church met in the synagogue.
And there are some new things that come and they're new and they're permanent things. But watch. There are some things we see in the book of Acts that aren't old, and they aren't new and permanent. They are just especially for the transitional period. And unless you understand that, you become confused. Let's look back at our text and we saw three sections to our transition. First of all Paul was in transition verses 18 to 22.
"Paul after this charity good while in Corinth and then he took his leave of the brothern, sailed from there to Syria, with him Priscilla and Aquila. Paul having cut his hair in Cenchrea for he had a vow." And that tells us he was in transition, he was still making vows on an Old Testament basis, Nazarite vow and he did it in thanks to God for delivering him from Gallio and from those Jews in Corinth who wanted to take his life.
"He came to Ephesus and left them there but he himself entered the Synagogue, reasoned with the Jews." And this of course is his first visit to Ephesus and he left Aquila and Priscilla there to being the work. The Jews wanted him to stay longer, verse 20, "but he had to hurry to Jerusalem" verse 21, "because he had to complete his vow, the Nazarite vow had to be completed in the temple."
Now this shows you this stringent nature of Paul's Judaism, even though he was a Christian, he still wanted to fulfill this vow in the right way and he wanted to be there for the feast which was a Judaistic feast. So you see the Paul was still in transition. He had not yet been able to set aside all of these old features. He sailed from Ephuses, landed at Cezeria, went up and greeted the church and of course we know that's Jerusalem church and then he went down to Antioch.
And verse 23 says, "After that he went again on his third missionary journey." And so we saw Paul in transition. Secondly we saw Apollos. Remember Apollos, a certain Jew. Born in Alexandria, an eloquent and it means eloquent and learned man. Mighty in the Scripture, the Old Testament. Came to Ephesus, you remember that story, he was instructed in the way of the Lord, he was fervent in his spirit, he was speaking and teaching Jesus, but he knew only the baptism of John which means that he knew Jesus was Messiah, but came up short of the cross and the Resurrection.
Verse 26, "he began to speak Aquila and Priscilla took him home." And it says, "They explained unto him the way of God more perfectly. They gave him full knowledge of the work of Christ and of course he believed and became a New Testament saint. And then he went in verses 27 and 28 "back to Corinth and watered what Paul had planted." It says, "He helped much them who believe through grace and he publicly convinced the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah."
So here we see two people in transition. Paul was a Christian hanging onto to Judaistic features; Apollos was an Old Testament saint who needed to be brought to Christ. Thirdly we come to our third group in transition and that's in verses 1 to 7 in chapter 19. And I want you to see this clearly. Now in this particular little portion of seven verses, God is still picking up some Old Testament loose ends. These are Old Testament Saints. I'm convinced of that. Old Testament Saints who were followers of John the Baptist, who had not yet even heard about all the features of Jesus Christ. And so they're still caught in the transition.
As Old Testament Saints, they needed to be given the fullness of knowledge that they might become a part of the church. Look at verse 1. "It came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth." You remember Apollos left Ephesus where he met Aquila and Priscilla and went to Corinth administered there and really sort of built on what Paul had begun. "But it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper borders, came to Ephesus." Now you remember that back in verse 21 Paul had said the Ephesians, "If God so wills I'll come back." And God did will and so he came back.
He had started his third missionary journey went through south Galatia and confirmed the churches and strengthened them. And he keeps going and he comes to Ephesus and he comes to the upper borders, there were two roads, the lower one in the valley, the upper one in the hill. He came across the top one, downing from the north into Ephesus. Now watch what happens. "And finding certain disciples." Now I'll stop there for a minute.
He meets 12 men. Now the 12 is indicated in verse 7, "All the men were about 12." Now he meets 12 people who are introduced to him as disciples. Now this is interesting because when we look at the word disciple, it's easy to make an assumption. And that is the assumption that they were Christians. New Testament believers. And verse 2 says, "have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?" So here we find disciples is one word used and believed is another word. Now the easy assumption is, oh, those are Christians. They are disciples, they have believed.
The question that's obvious in my mind is disciples of whom would believe what? Now you go back into the Gospel of John and what do you find John saying? Continually, continually pointing out that you can't always determine anything by whether a person follows or whether he believes on the surface. Jesus for example in 8 John it says that "many believed on His name and He said that's fine, but He that continues in My word is My disciple for real." 6 John 66 said, "And many of his disciples turned their backs and walked no more with Him." So in the word disciples which means learner, and in the concept of believing, there's really no implication of Christianity. The reason that people assumed that they had to be Christians here is because the word disciple in the book of Acts is used to speak of Christians. No less than a dozen times at least in the first 15 chapters.
And so they say they've got to be Christians. Now watch what happens. The folks who wanted to defend the view that you could be saved and not have the Holy Spirit say see, you have Christians. And then he says, "Have you received the Holy Spirit?" And they say, "We have not so much as heard whether the Holy Spirit has been given." So there you have Christians who have not received the Holy Spirit. And believe me, the Pentecostals use chapter 19 as a defense of their particular doctrine.
Now let me start at this point. I believe that the point about whether they were Christians is very, very debatable. You say why? Well in the first place, they didn't know anything about the Holy Spirit in terms of His being granted. And had they been Christians, they would have had to been on this side of the cross, right? A Christian is somebody who believes in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. If they had been on this side of the cross, they would have known about the Holy Spirit. For Christ had promised to give the Holy Spirit. And on that side of the cross the Holy Spirit had come obviously.
Another thing, if they had been Christians, verse 3 at the end says, "they said we were baptized under John's baptism." They didn't even understand the baptism of Christ. verse 5, Paul told them about it and then they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Let me ask you a question. In the early church, when were people baptized? When were they baptized? Immediately upon believing. If you look at Acts 2, "3,000 believed and were baptized." All through the book of Acts, baptism is immediate upon salvation.
Now if these people were Christians in the sense of believing in the finished work of Christ, they would have known the baptism of the Lord Jesus Christ. They did not know that the Holy Spirit was given; they did not understand the baptism of Christ. The implication of verse 4 is Paul says unto them, "John the baptizer the baptism of repentance that you should believe on Him who should come after him, that is our Messiah Jesus." That implies they didn't even know about Messiah Jesus.
And Paul says to them, look, John was getting you ready for Jesus. Oh, they said. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. I think it is very clear from the passage that they were not Christians. They were Old Testament saints believers in God, followers of John the Baptist who was the last of the Old Testament prophets and he was getting a people ready for the Messiah's arrival. They were ready; they just didn't know the Messiah.
Now there are some important considerations in the passages. I want you to think these through with me. Many people have problems because of the term disciple and the word believe. But if you study carefully the use of those terms particularly in the Gospels, in the Gospel of John, you will find that a disciple is simply a learner. He can be a disciple of anybody. A disciple of anybody.
And somebody who believed that's an unqualified statement. The devils what? Believe. So there's no necessity to make people Christians just because they're followers or learners and just because they believe. And incidentally it doesn't say that they necessarily believe. Paul simply asks the question, whether they've received the Holy Spirit since they believed.
Now this again I say is a major, major passage for those who would defend a gap between salvation and the Holy Spirit. That you get the Holy Spirit later. This is what used to be called an old theology, the second blessing. That salvation is the first blessing and then you surrender or you yield later on and you get the Holy Spirit as kind of a second blessing. And I think a real problem here is first of all the failure to recognize the transitional nature of the book of Acts.
Let me say it this way. You cannot and I say that meaning the word that I said. You cannot take the experience catch that word. You cannot take the experience of the people in Acts and make it the norm for the church. In the first place it's not a command, it's not an explicit statement. They're merely taking an experience and extracting that experience out of a transitional period and establishing it as the norm.
Now the danger in doing that as I mentioned earlier is the fact that if you're going to take one experience in Acts, who's to stop you from taking all of them or who becomes arbitrary enough to say which ones you take and which ones you don't. And if you're really going to accept that, then you ought to run around take Nazarite vows and cut your hair. And offer a burnt sin offering.
But that's dead, that's a dead issue. That's long gone. And you're going to have to follow what James does in the 21st chapter of Acts when he has a whole bunch of people go down there and take vows, Jewish vows. No, you cannot take the experiences of the book of Acts and make them the norm. Now let me give you some thoughts. And remember our little word acrobos we said last week that Apollos was not only mighty in the Scripture but he was diligent. We said the word means exactness, that he taught the Scripture with exactness. Well we need to be exacting when we look at these verses because they're very important.
Let me give you some thoughts. First of all, these folks were not Christians at all. And I think that is important to establish at the very beginning. They were not Christians at all. You say well if they were followers of John the Baptist, they must have been. Well I'm not too sure about that. Let me show you why. Matthew 11, 1 through 3. "You know the followers of John the Baptist weren't too sure about Jesus even the ones that knew about Him." Now remember this, John was in the wilderness, right? Preaching Jesus. Announcing the Lamb of God was coming. Maybe not by name at first, he didn't really know who it was until finally Jesus arrived. And he said, "behold the Lamb of God, take away the sin of the world." But he was out there getting his people ready for the Messiah. And remember this, there were thousands of people coming out there. They would come, they would be baptized, they would go back to the city. Some of them got in on the initial information. Some of them got in on the later information.
Not all of the disciples of John the Baptist had all of the information about Jesus. Listen to this, even after they had announced that Jesus was the Messiah, they had questions. John was saying repent for what is at hand. The kingdom. And you know what happened to John? He woke up one day and realized he was in prison. And he looked around and he saw that Jesus didn't appear to be really setting up a kingdom. In fact it looked as if Jesus was becoming a victim. And his mind begin to wonder, did I make a mistake? Is in fact this not the Messiah?
And so he sends two disciples, Matthew 11:1. "In the past when Jesus had ceased commanding His 12 disciples, He departed from there to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John had heard in the prisons the works of Christ, he sent to His disciples." They said to Jesus, this is what he told them to say. "Art thou He that should come or do we look for another?" Amazing. You mean in John's own mind he's got questions? Listen. "If John in his own mind had some question about Christ, about the fact that Jesus was that Messiah, it's easy to understand that some of his disciples might not have understood all there was to understand about Jesus," right? And so we assume then and now you can go back to Acts 19 that these disciples could easily have been instructed by John short of a full understanding and a full belief in Jesus as their Messiah. And certainly they were not Christians. Or they would have known the baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus and they would have known something about the gift of the Holy Spirit.
I'm going to give you a second thing. I say first of all they aren't the norm for Christians because they aren't even Christians. So that eliminates this passage. And we took care of that. Point two. There's another reason that I don't believe they're the norm and that's because they're a transitional group. What happens in transition is not necessarily set the pattern.
Now if somebody comes to me and says John, what do you believe about the doctrine of the Holy Spirit? I don't take him to the book of Acts. Because there are straightforward, explicit statements about the Holy Spirit all throughout the Scripture. I don't need to go to the book of Acts because that's a transitional time. And there are not those same explicit statements in these transitional pictures. Let me show you what I mean.
If somebody says to me do you believe that every Christian has the Holy Spirit? I'll tell you what verse I always take them too. Romans 8:9. Listen to what it says. This is doctrine Paul said this. "You're not in the flesh, but in the Spirit." Now that's a definition of a Christian. Not in the flesh, in the Spirit. "If so be it that the Spirit of God dwell in you." Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of his. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not Christian.
There can be no gap between your salvation and the gift of the Spirit. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you don't belong to Christ. Turn it around. If you belong to Christ, what? You have the Holy Spirit. And I would say, oh, that's only one verse. Okay, I'll give you 11 others. 1 Corinthian 6:19. He says, what? "Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?" That's what I feel like saying and do say so often to these people.
What? "Don't you know your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you what you have of God?" I mean this is a gift of God. This is yours and believe me beloved, I am convinced that to deny the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit is to slight God. Is to diminish His glory because it's to deny a work which He has done. Now I believe the credibility, we talk a lot about credibility gaps. I believe the credibility of God is at stake in this area because listen to what He said.
Ezekiel 36:26. You don't need to turn to it, just listen. God says, now watch this promise. "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you." verse 27. "And I will put my Spirit within you." Now do you read any conditions there? What are the conditions for getting the Spirit? What are they? Is there an if there? Nope. God says I will do it. Now the credibility of God is at stake. If a Christian has to do something to get the Holy Spirit then in theory, there are some Christians who never do that something so they never get the Holy Spirit. Therefore the promise of God is invalidated in their behalf. No the credibility of God is at stake. And secondly the credibility of Jesus is at stake in John 14, verse 16.
Jesus said, "I'll pray to the Father, He shall give you another Comforter." What are the conditions? The only condition for the coming of the comforter was what? The prayer of Jesus. I'll pray the Father and he'll give you the comforter. Next verse. "Even the spirit of truth and the world cannot receive it sees Him not, neither knows Him, but you know Him. He dwells with you and shall be in you." What's the condition? No condition. The prayer of Jesus.
"Listen beloved the indwelling Spirit and the life of the believer establishes the credibility of God and the credibility of Jesus Christ." To say that a Christian has not the Spirit of God is to impugn the credibility both of God and Christ. And that is not to give Him glory by any means. Now let me give you another one. John 7, this is really potent. John 7:37. And this is the words of Jesus. "In the last day that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out saying, 'if any man thirsts, let him come into Me and drink.'" Now listen, Jesus said, "Let him come into Me and drink he that believeth on Me." What was that again? He that does what? Believeth on Me as the Scripture has said, the credibility of God. Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water. And this spoke He of the Spirit whom they that believe on Him should receive.
Did you hear that? Pretty convincing. Jesus said, "If you believe out of your heart shall flow rivers of living water. This spoke He of the Spirit. Whom they that believe should receive." Who receives the Holy Spirit? Those who believe. All who believe. And he said; the only reason the Spirit was not given yet was because Jesus was not yet glorified. Now watch, once Jesus was glorified, the Spirit was immediately given. 1 Corinthians 12, another one. And this is in verse 13. "By one Spirit where we all baptized into one body." How many were baptized? How many have had the baptism of Spirit? All.
What are Jews, Greeks, bon free, listen; we've all been made to drink into one Spirit. All of us. All of us. Give you another one. 2 Corinthians 6:16 and I like this. He's talking about being unequally yoked together with unbelievers. And he says this, "For you are the temple of the living God." Now if the Corinthians are with all their vile sins even as Christians. It's quite a statement.
"You are the temple of the living God as God has said, 'I will dwell in them and walk in them.'" You know why you're the temple of the living God? Because God said you'd be. Not because you sought it, because He said it. Well you say well some people don't have the Holy Spirit. You're right, some people don't have. You know who they are? I'll read you who they are. Jude 19. "These are they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit." Well who are they? They are mockers who walk after their own ungodly lusts. Unsaved people don't have the Holy Spirit. Not Christians. Not Christians.
In fact in Ephesians chapter 2, verse 21 and 22 says the "whole church is built together for inhabitation of the Spirit?" Of course. Alright, what are we saying? We're saying that if you want to look for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, you don't look at the book of Acts and pull out some transitional passage. You look at theology you look at the doctrines that are written in the Epistles. Now you say, well John, but they also use Acts 8. Alright, look at Acts 8. Let's look at it. And this will be interesting I think for you. Take a little different angle.
Acts 8:15, because here are some Christians who didn't have the Holy Spirit. You say, uh oh, no, uh oh, there is no uh oh here. Does it matter? Because it's transitional. It's at a period of transition. Now listen. Acts 8, verse 15. "Who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. Or as yet He was falling upon none of them. Only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." So they were Christians without the Holy Spirit. Now listen.
"Then laid they their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit." Now I've told you before that this is a simple thing in the transition. These are Samaritans. In all the world it is unlikely that Jews hated anybody as much as they hated Samaritans. Now the Jews had received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, right? The Gospel had been preached in Samaria. And they had for 500 years had separate yemples. Mt. Gerizim and Jerusalem. They had not spoken to each other. The woman at the well was shocked when Jesus even talked to her because she was a Samaritan. Just didn't happen. And so what happened in the founding of the church in Samaria was very important because as those Samaritan believers came to Christ, if they had received the Holy Spirit right then on the spot, and no Jews had seen it. There would have existed the same dichotomy.
And so God in His marvelous wisdom withheld the Holy Spirit from them until Jewish apostles arrived. And the Jewish apostles saw them receive the Holy Spirit with the same manifestation that they had received on Pentecost and they could go back and say to the Jews in Jerusalem, you won't believe this, but God has made the Samaritans one with us. Do you see why that was important? Because the church was supposed to be one body, wasn't it?
And so God withheld the giving of the Spirit in the case of the Samaritans until the Apostles were present. Remember what happened in the case of Cornelius in chapter 10? He also received the Holy Spirit, had the same manifestation of tongues as they had on the day of the Pentecost and all the Jews that were standing there were absolutely shocked. They couldn't believe it. Peter went back to Jerusalem and says, you guys aren't going to believe this. Those Gentiles got the same thing we got.
You know why? That's exactly what God wanted them to see. God withheld the Spirit in the case of the Samaritans until such a time the Jews could arrive to see them receive the same thing they received that the church might be one. God did not want any schism. And so the only reason that that little group of believers there did not receive the Holy Spirit immediately was that God might weld together those two antagonistic peoples into one body.
And that's clearly indicated in this Scripture as Peter goes back later on and reports the marvelous fact that even Gentiles got the same thing they got. God was putting His church together. Now I want you to notice something in verses 18 to 23. This little statement here that just runs through these verses tells us how not to get the Holy Spirit. They received the Holy Spirit implying it was a gift. They didn't earn the Holy Spirit or gain the Holy Spirit. Verse 18, "when Simon saw that," Simon was a magician, a sorcerer, "saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money. Oh, that's a good trick, I want to buy that one."
Now watch 19. He said, "Give me also this power so that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit." And Peter said, "your money perish with you because you thought that the gift of God" watch "might be obtained with human means." You think that you can earn the gift of God the Holy Spirit by human means? Thou has neither part nor lot in this matter. You're not even saved. Your heart isn't right in the sight of God. Repent of this wickedness. Pray to God and maybe you'll be forgiven. You in the gall of bitterness, you in the bond of the iniquity.
Now listen, watch this. Simon desired the gift of the Holy Spirit. He desired; here was his motive. He wanted more power. Greater spiritual power. Peter condemned. That's a dangerous motive friend. You know what kind of a motive that is? Selfish, selfish. And what happens in this kind of a thing is people begin to desire greater power, greater power see. Peter condemns it. Secondly he wanted to buy it. In other words, he thought it could be obtained through human means.
It wasn't just the money, it was the idea that Peter saw in this guy a desire to obtain a gift from God through human means and Peter just blasts that thing sky high. He says such a spirit that seeks a Holy Spirit for self and through human means is a spirit in which is the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity. And that kind of spirit needs to pray not for the Holy Spirit, but needs to pray for forgiveness. That's what he said to him. That's not even saved. And later on the early church regarded Simon as the father of heresy. Now beloved, I think Simon the magician serves as a lasting warning.
That we cannot selfishly seek by human means to obtain that which God gives freely through salvation. Simon sinned by presuming that God give him something because he would pay for it through some way. He thought he could pay a price to give what God gives for nothing, can't. And I think people who go around seeking for the Holy Spirit to have greater power and by doing some human things and going through some human gimmicks and some human routines and some human kind of seekings can earn the Holy Spirit are doing in a sense exactly what Simon was doing and are to be castigated in the same way that Peter castigated him.
And I say that with a sense of love and a sense of apprehension at the same time lest it be assumed that I do not love these people. I do, I love God though and I want God to get what is due Him in terms of His glory. And I don't think He does when we minimize the truth of the Holy Spirit. And when you take that which is the gift of God and turn it into something which can be obtained through human means, you have destroyed the concept of grace.
That's important to me. Alright, back to 19. Acts 19. And let's run down the passage. And I think it will all unfold for you clearly now as we go. Now watch what he says unto them. He said unto them, "have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?" Why does he ask that? Because of this. He can establish by the answer to that question whether they're saved. If they said yes, he would say, hey, terrific, your're brothers in Christ. Why? Because all Christians have the Holy Spirit. The old Samarian thing that's over. The old Cornelius bit with the Gentiles, that's over. From then on the transition is gone, people who believe now receive the Spirit.
People who believe receive the Spirit now. So he simply says then hey, have you received the Spirit since you believed? That's a normal thing. You go back to Acts chapter 15; Peter said, hey, here's the normal test. Listen to this. They were arguing about whether Gentiles are really saved. Well the circumcision were saying, they aren't really saved until they get circumcised. So Peter says this. Acts 15:7. "He rose up and said men and brothers you know how that a good while ago God made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the Word of the Gospel and believe." He said, "now you guys know God called me to preach the Gospel to Gentiles." Okay? And they believed. Now watch. "And God who knoweth the heart." That's so important. You think God knows whether their faith is real? Sure He does. He says, "And God who knows whether their faith was real," watch "giving them" what? "The Holy Spirit."
You know why they got the Holy Spirit? Because God knew what? Their faith was real. What is the condition in for getting the Holy Spirit? Real faith. Believing. Peter says; this is the norm. And there's no difference between us and them. Now he says, let's leave it at that. And you know that became the norm for the church? So when Paul runs into a 12 guys and somebody says, hey, here's 12 disciples. He says, oh, terrific. Let me find out if you're real disciples. Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? That's important question. Because he knew, he knew that that was the sign of salvation.
You got it? It's important. Later on, Paul put it this way. "If any man had not the Spirit of Christ, none of His." Now Paul didn't say this, he didn't say did you receive the Holy Spirit when you prayed? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you carried? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you emptied yourself? Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you obeyed? When you yielded and when you surrendered? And as the authorized version says wrongly, did you receive the Holy Spirit after you believed? No, no, no. It doesn't say that.
He said, "Did you receive the Spirit when you believed?" When you believed is the literal Greek. "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" Now what's he saying? He's saying that faith is the key. Now look what happens. Watch this. "They said unto him." And I'll give you the rendering that's accurate. "We have not so much as heard whether the Holy Spirit was given." He says, "have you received the Holy Spirit since believing or when believing?" And they say, hey, we haven't even heard of the Holy Spirit was given. He says, watch this. Verse 3. "Unto what then were you baptized?"
What kind of baptism did he have? He said, what's the point. The point is that if they had not received the Holy Spirit, they must not have been baptized as believers in Jesus Christ. What kind of baptism did you have? It couldn't have been a normal or they would have received the Holy Spirit. Now notice verse 2. He says, "have you every received the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They said unto him, and I'll give you the Greek rendering. "We did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was." That's all it says. And so we add best given at the end. "We did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was given." Now it isn't right to say we have not so much as heard of the Holy Spirit. Because they must have heard of the Holy Spirit.
The Old Testament saints and John the Baptist in Luke 3:16, he says, "one comith after me mightier than I who shoes latch that I am unworthy to loose, He shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire." It's amazing to me how many people say we want to be baptized through the Holy Spirit and fire. And if you read the next verse you wouldn't say that. Because the next verse says, "it's unquenchable fire where he burns the chafe. It's hell." You better be sure what fire you're talking about.
But the point here is that John the Baptist did teach about the Holy Spirit. So it wouldn't be proper to say we didn't know there was a Holy Spirit. But rather they did not know that the Holy Spirit had been given. They knew promised. Yes, every Old Testament saint who got promised His Spirit. And John said the Holy Spirit would come, but they didn't know that the Holy Spirit had been given. Now watch this. I love what he says to them. Verse 3. He says, "Unto what then were you baptized?" And we know what he didn't say. He didn't say what kind of faulty instruction have you had?
And then proceeded to teach them the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. He doesn't do that at all. I want you to notice something in verses 4 and 5. He uses only two proper names. Christ Jesus, at the end of verse 4 and Lord Jesus the end of verse 5. Did they teach him about the Holy Spirit? Nope. Isn't it interesting beloved that when they didn't know about the Holy Spirit, watch this one. He taught them about Christ. Why?
Because when they came to faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit was given as a gift. That wasn't even the issue. If I find somebody uninstructed knowing nothing about the Holy Spirit, I teach them about Christ. And the Holy Spirit is granted to them as a gift. No Paul doesn't say now I must give you the 16 principles to a deeper commitment. Well he just gives them the gospel. He just says, hey, he says, John was baptizing you to repent to get ready for the Messiah, but he was telling you that you had to believe on the one who came after. And that one is here and He is Christ Jesus and they heard that and said, great. And when they heard it they were baptized in His name.
And bang in verse 6, "the Spirit came." See. Oh Paul asked the right question. He did not ask did you after believing realize that you must press on to a second level? Didn't say that. Didn't say don't you know how to seek for the baptism? Didn't say that. He didn't say let's go to the second level; he said let's go back to the first level. He didn't say we must go to higher things. He said, let's get back to the basics. You don't know Jesus.
Well he didn't say how are you going to do this, do that. Ask for this; ask for that. So forth. He didn't say oh, did you believe hard enough? Was your surrender full? He never talked about subjective things. He took the objective content faith of Jesus and here it is, you believe it, the Spirit will come. And that's important. You know to assume that a Christian doesn't have the Holy Spirit is a hopeless thing.
Listen to 2 Peter 1:2. "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord." All he didn't know is Jesus and God. The Holy Spirit comes along in the deal. Listen to verse 3. "According as His divine power has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness," would you say the Holy Spirit pertains to our eternal life and godliness? Yes. Well it says there He has given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. You say, but aha, how do you get it? Through the knowledge of Him that called us. Who's that? God. If you know God through Christ, the Spirit comes as a gift.
And so Paul simply says to them, I'll determine whether they're Christians. Have you received the Holy Spirit when you believed? We haven't heard that the Holy Spirit was given. Well then what kind of baptism did you have? Well we were baptized in John. Oh, you're short of Christ. John was only preparing you for Christ. Let me tell you about Christ. They believed baptized bang, verse 6 receive the Holy Spirit.
That's the pattern. That's the pattern. Now notice what happened when the Spirit came verse 6. "When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them and spoke with tongues, languages and prophecy." Some say that when Paul laid his hands on them, he it does not mean anything super apostolic people or anything like that. But that Paul was just baptizing them, holding them or whether he was putting his arms around them or he was just putting his hands on them in terms of a brotherly time of affection, whatever.
He had his hands on them and at that point the spirit came and they spoke with languages and prophecy. You say there it is, there's the norm, there's the norm. That's how it happens. Now wait a minute. That's the last time it ever happens in the New Testament. Did you get that? That's it. Now where are we, what book? Acts, transition. You say well why does it happen? Does it say command that this is the way it will always be is nothing about that there. verse 7 simply says, "and all the men were about 12." It doesn't say and this is how it'll always be.
It just wraps it up there. You say, well why did they speak in tongues? Two reasons. One, what did I tell you earlier that God wanted to do? He wanted to tie everybody into one church, didn't he? Because let me give you an even stronger reason. These people had never heard that the Holy Spirit had come. And God knew that they needed a strong convincing that the Spirit had come. And so God and His wonderful wisdom just extended Pentecost to them. So that they too would know the Spirit came. They were Jews.
And He just had a delayed little Pentecost there in Ephesus. And I'm sure they all said, oh, the Holy Spirit has come. We believed. Well, teaching of Acts 19:1 to 7 is this. Here were 12 men who lacked the Holy Spirit. Do you know why they lacked the Holy Spirit? Not because of a failure to summon Him. Not because they didn't surrender. Not because they didn't speak in tongues, but because they never knew Jesus Christ.
I hope you understand that. And again I hope you understand that this is said with a sense of love and a sensitivity to the fact that many could construe that I am bitter towards these people. I am not; I am zealous for the glory of God. Well so we meet the third party in transition. Let me close by saying this. We met three little transitions here, didn't we? First Paul, then Apollos, then the 12. And you know something? We're a long way from the book of Acts. But we see these three groups still. You know that in the church of Jesus Christ we've got people like Paul who are saved, have come all the way to Jesus Christ, but they're hanging on to legalism?
They're hanging on to old patterns, traditions, even some Jewish people who find it very difficult to fully absorb themselves in the life of the church. And I say this; I praise God for Jewish Christians who function fruitfully in the ministry of the body of Christ as opposed to maintaining isolation. But you know we have many believers today in Christ who are still they're not in yet. They're still holding on to old things. And then we have people like Apollos, sure we have people who good people, honest people, repentive sin, they just believe in God, but they've never met Christ.
Maybe they think of Jesus as a wonderful teacher, a man of great ethics, they never come to the cross and the resurrection. And then we've got a lot of people running around who are uninstructed in the Holy Spirit. Much of it is because they don't even know Jesus Christ. Some know Christ. And grieve the Spirit by misunderstanding His marvelous work. I hope you're not in transition. I hope like the writer of Hebrews says, "you will come all the way to the fullness of experiencing all that God has provided for you." Let's pray.
Father, we're thankful that we can speak with conviction from the pages of Scripture, not from our own opinion. I thank You for these beloved folks here. And Father there may be in our midst some who have pursued this particular view of the Holy Spirit feeling that they do not have the Spirit and searching for some kind of outward manifestation. God help them to understand that our desire is only that they know the fullness of all that is granted them in salvation.
That salvation is complete and total. That God does not withhold from us any good thing. But rather that all who believe out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water in this big sea of the Holy Spirit. We even would say to the Holy Spirit thank you for being our strength, our life. Father we would pray that in dealing with those who misunderstand the work of the Spirit we might deal in love.
And Father as we meet others in transition, some perhaps like Paul who are hanging onto old patterns and have not yet been able to enjoy their liberty in Christ we pray that we might be gentle and that we might see them as weaker brothers in love even as Paul suggests. And not cause them to stumble. And Father as we meet some good people, some people who believe in You who may even believe in Jesus to a point that have never come to the foot of the cross that we may in love as Aquila and Priscilla did put our arms around them and bring them to the complete knowledge of Jesus Christ and His perfect work.
Thank you Lord for what we learned today from your Word, what the Spirit shall teach us as these things are applied. We pray in Christ's name, Amen.
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Cameron 'preparing EU quit threat'
David Cameron is preparing to threaten to back Britain quitting the European Union if it fails to make major concessions over returning powers.
The Prime Minister has always refused to say he would campaign to sever ties if he failed to achieve his promised reforms, but is now poised to issue the warning, according to The Times.
Mr Cameron has pledged that a Conservative government would hold a referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017 after renegotiating London's relationship with Brussels.
David Cameron and Jean-Claude Juncker at the European Parliament in Brussels (European Union/PA)
His efforts to pave the way for a new deal were dealt a blow earlier in the summer when he lost the battle to stop arch-federalist Jean-Claude Juncker becoming the next European Commission president.
The PM wants to Britain to be freed from the commitment to an ''ever closer union'' as well as a shift to powers flowing away from Brussels rather than to it.
Among the other reforms he wants to secure are a reduction in red tape for businesses and the right to free movement to take up work, not free benefits.
But critics warn that a significant overhaul is unlikely and he faces a major battle to win over Mr Juncker after publicly denouncing his candidacy.
No timescale has been set for outlining the beefed up stance but the Conservative party's autumn conference is being considered, according to The Times.
A source told the newspaper: "The shift was almost made public at the time Juncker was appointed, but that timing might have looked like petulance."
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Artist: Henry Moretti
Title: "The Flame of Learning"
Medium: Sculpture - Wood
Size: 77" x 36" x 36"
Year Installed: 1981
Venue: Hallandale Branch Library
Born in France, Moretti immigrated to the United States in 1951. Working as a design consultant, he turned to sculpting later in life. Inspired by Jean Arp and Brancusi, he explored the free flowing organic form primarily in wood which he has collected from different parts of the world. Here, he used Guanacaste wood with its pronounced grain and rich tonality to fashion "The Flame of Learning". Standing in the lobby of the Library, this sculpture greets patrons daily.
"In this graceful wood sculpture, the artist, by guiding the form upward, achieves lightness through the use of negative space. The strength of the image, in contrast, is achieved through the grain and texture of the wood."


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Saponara hails Italy's 'beautiful football'
Saturday 8 June 2013
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Riccardo Saponara called Italy's football "beautiful" as he looked forward to the semi-finals while Israel's players were disappointed to have "let down our fans" after the 4-0 loss.
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After scoring four goals that were notably easy on the eye, Italy's players are now combining "beautiful football" with good results according to the scorer of their opener against Israel, Riccardo Saponara. The 4-0 win in their second UEFA European Under-21 Championship Group B game put the Azzurrini in the semi-finals which was "the most important thing" for Manolo Gabbiadini, who struck twice at Bloomfield. For Israel pair Eliazer Dasa and Israel Zaguri there was regret that the tournament hosts let down their fans and had not been able to test themselves with 11 men against Italy for the whole 90 minutes.
Riccardo Saponara, Italy forward
I'm very happy, because I only arrived here on Monday. I have to say thanks to my team-mates and my coach who allowed me to play in the final of the [Serie B] play-offs on Sunday. Unfortunately
I could only watch the last game [against England], so I had an incredible desire to play. Today I showed all my passion and we performed very well as a team. We showed once again that we are a fantastic group. This unity and this team strength will take us far.
We have players with quality in attack, we create good movements that can lead to very beautiful goals. The first goal today is an example. We always try and play beautiful football and this allows us to get results. The really good part starts now we meet a team from the other group. All four teams [in Group B] are very strong. We'll try to be ready; we must focus on ourselves and prepare. If we stay determined then we can go far.
Manolo Gabbiadini, Italy forward
Qualification was the most important thing because it was a very difficult match for us. On paper it could look easy, but it wasn't. We played the game in a good fashion and in the end we deserved to win. [Being the star] is not important for me. The most crucial thing is to win because we are a great group. I don't care about the goals. If I score I'm happy, but also if my team-mates score. The most important thing is to win.
[We will face Norway] in the same way we approached these two games, always as if it were a final. This is the way to play.
Eliazer Dasa, Israel defender
I think that after the game against Norway we realised that if we play with no fear and go for it, we could do it. In the first 30 minutes we proved that, but Italy are a superior side and after the red card our game plan was torn up. It's a nightmare for footballers to play 60 minutes with ten men against a team at a very high level. It's disappointing because we came close in the first few minutes and had a foothold in the contest. It's such a shame.
It's a very good experience to play against such great players. You see how you do against them and I felt good. [Lorenzo] Insigne is a great player and I think I marked him well on the right flank before he went off injured.
Israel Zaguri, Israel midfielder
I think there is great disappointment because we started so well, but we cannot think about it, we just need to look forward and think about the next match. Although we played with ten men this score hurts. Our big crowd came and expected better. We played very well in the opening minutes but it's a shame.
Its painful that we let our fans down like that but we must not forget we played against a very strong team, one of the strongest in the tournament with players that play at the highest level. We hope to fix things in the next game.
I'd rather not think of myself as we play as a team and it's a bad thing that we lost. We have to give 100% in the next game and not think too much – just play football.


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PAPUA, Indonesia — In Papua, Indonesia, where indigenous people have been marginalized in their own land, learning to tell stories is one way to strengthen the voice of the people.
That's why Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) offered a storytelling
workshop for 15 people selected by Papuan partner organizations last year.
Through telling stories, written or verbal, storytellers can understand
themselves and others better and they can teach their readers by writing about their experiences and observations, workshop coordinators told the participants. Workshop coordinators were MCC workers Danielle and Brandon Donelson-Sims of Columbus, Ohio, and MCC Indonesia staff member TiyaSumihe.
As stories spread, within and outside of Papua, the voices of indigenous people gain power, helping people to understand their culture, the issues they face and the injustices and conflict they experience.
One of the people who took the storytelling class was Ira Sianturi, a
pharmacist at a Papuan hospital, who is very familiar with the growing
problem of HIV and AIDS in Papua, Indonesia. Although Sianturi is not
indigenous, she works with indigenous people by volunteering with Jayapura Support Group, an MCC partner that supports people living with HIV and AIDS and helps to educate people about the disease.
After Sianturi took the storytelling workshop, she wrote the following
story about her work with the support group. Sumihe translated the story, and MCC edited it for a western audience.
"When Fika went to the hospital to have her baby, she went through an HIV screening. Fika was HIV positive. The hospital recommended a Cesarean section to reduce the chances of transmitting HIV to the baby. (Fika's last name is not being used to protect her privacy.)
"For six weeks after she was born, baby Ania was given anti-retroviral
medicine to protect her from the virus she may have contracted, in spite of the precautions, during delivery or through breastfeeding. Then Fika had to bring Ania to me at the hospital pharmacy for medicine every two weeks for one year. As a volunteer for Jayapura Support Group, I wanted to help her.
"At first, it was very hard for me to approach her. There was a big wall
between us. She did not want to talk about her HIV status or about her
husband's status. I tried to break the wall between us by holding Ania, not only because I wanted to get her mother's attention, but also because that little girl always smiled. I liked to hold her.
"From the attention I gave to Ania, her mother began to open up. Fika began to talk about Ania and her other three children. Suddenly, we could laugh together about little things. Ania was getting bigger, healthy and so cute.
"When Fika sent me a text message asking for information, I knew there was no longer a wall between us.
"I introduced Fika to other women with children who had completed the medication program and did not develop HIV. I wanted Fika to see that the program has results, and a true hope is there. One year is not a short time to give the medicine to Ania. Fika needs a friend who knows her status and still accepts her.
"After a single year in the support group, no one thought Fika would become brave enough to tell her husband about her status and to ask him to have an antibody test, but she did.
"Although Fika's husband's test result was negative, I saw he was not upset with her. They learned from the hospital HIV counselor that by staying on medicine and using protection, one partner can avoid giving it to the other. After they left, I even texted Fika to ask, and she said her husband could accept her.
"A few times after that I saw Fika and her husband walking together in
Jayapura, holding hands like a couple falling in love. Once, I surprised
them and they shyly let go their hands.
"The relationship I have with Fika and her husband is not just as a
patient-nurse, but also as brothers and sisters. I like this relationship.
"After a year, their little girl with round eyes and curly hair had an> antibody test. The result: HIV negative. Ania is the tenth child who made it through the hospital's Mother to Child Transmission program without becoming HIV positive.
"I hope there will be more success stories and that all women will go
through HIV screening before they deliver their babies. As the Jayapura Support Group logo states, 'From Fear to Hope.'
"Is HIV scary? Of course, but everything is possible. Ania proved it."
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Making Heavenly Souls
I'm still adding finishing touches to the these souls, but so far I like how these simple props are turning out.
They still need proper lighting and a bit more cheesecloth, but overall I've achieved the effect I wanted with little cost.
I only had $30 to soend on this year's projects. It's a drop in the bucket compared to past years. Luckily I had picked up the paper mache masks on clearance last November. All I needed to buy was the cheesecloth.
5 packages of 15 ft lengths of cheesecloth.
Budget spent.
Everything else I had around the house including:
- paint
- wire
- paper towels
- paper towel tubes
- tape
- black tissue paper
- glue & glue gun
- invisible thread
- those packing pillows of air. I have no idea what they are officially called. It's literally a square of air.
These would look nicer with more cheesecloth, but I think I did ok. Besides, these are not 'really ghosts, they are souls in my mind. For some reason I don't think souls have arms even in a physical manifestation, and that saved on material.
I've taken a few pictures of the process I made up as I went along. Are there better ways to build them? I am sure there are, but this worked for me and my limited resources. Let's jump into the quick how-to.
I took the paper masks I'd painted previously, flipped them face-down, and dabbed glue around the openings.
I took a folded piece of black tissue paper, lay it over the back of the mask, and gently pressed it into the contours around the holes in the face.
I then took some wire and cut a single long length (I would guess about 2 feet). I shaped one end of the wire into a circle, wrapping the wire back over itself on one side (to make it stronger as this would be the back of the head) and leaving an inch or so at the end to poke through the top of the mask.
I taped those circles (so the non-reinforced side was against the tissue paper) to the mask length-wise.
I popped an air pocket thing-a-ma-jig into the circle, then taped it into place. This saved me from spending time wrangling plastic bags or other fillers.
I made holes in the paper towel tubes (tubes from tinfoil rolls work even better) - one in the center, and then one on either side about 2 to 3 inches from the center hole. The holes went straight through and punctured the opposite side.
I pulled the wire (attached to my mask balloon creatures) through the center hole, wrapped it up and around itself, the through the bottom of the hole on the left, back up around the wire in the center near the chin, and back down through the hole on the right. Basically, I created a triangle that would flesh out the neck and also provide me with a bendable yet sturdy joint.
I grabbed my paper towels, counted out a line of 8 and detached them from the roll. I folded the long train of towels in half and started wrapping it around the tube and the neck, dabbing hot glue now and then.
I used two more to sloppily cover the back of the head, dabbing hot glue inside the back edge of the mask to hide my wire and air pockets.
I then tore a sheet diagonally (creating a triangle) and tore the edges. That got hot glued into place as well with the long edge of the triangle along the tube, and the single point turned down in the middle.
Remember that little loop of wire I used to attach the armature to the mask? It's the perfect spot to run invisible thread/fishing line through. Then run it through the cheesecloth leaving enough material to create a little brim like a hood on the forehead.
I found it easier to dress my figures once they were hung. I simply kept pulling up the edge (not the end, but the edge) of the cheesecloth and hooked it over a shoulder. You want a layered look. The more crisscrossing layers, the better it looks.
Some souls I hung on existing nails and hooks on the wall. I ran wire through the cheesecloth and around the wire frame beneath.
I have a little bit extra cheesecloth that I can spread out among a few souls. Really I could have used double the amount I had. Ah well.
5 packages (cut in half) dressed 9 souls.
Will share more pictures when I get them finished and lit properly.
Next project is the souls from Hell.
Lovely souls!
I think they're quite charming and you can't beat the price.
Oh, and those pocket pillows of air? I've heard them referred to as "bargain breast implants":)
These look great
I love it when I can create props with stuff I already have around the house.
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The BUG measuring system works in conjunction with the ecologically rated lighting zones developed in the Model Lighting Ordinance (MLO), jointly created by the IES and IDA. A draft of the MLO is open to public review until April 10.
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A Greer woman charged in Greenville for trying to take medication from residents while posing as a Department of Social Services worker has been charged by the Greer Police Department with similar crimes.
A Greer woman charged in Greenville for trying to take medication from residents while posing as a Department of Social Services worker has been charged by the Greer Police Department with similar crimes.
Christine Parker Deyoung, 37, of 709 Joines Court, has been charged by Greer police with petit larceny and three counts of second-degree burglary, Lt. Jimmy Holcombe said in a written statement.
Holcombe said Deyoung targeted residents of Snow Street Place, an apartment complex for seniors and went into the apartments of three residents there between March 28 and April 1.
An incident report states that Deyoung told one resident that she worked with a company affiliated with Greenville Hospital System that assists seniors. She asked the resident how he was feeling and what medications he was taking, and wrote some things down on paper she carried in a folder, the report states.
The resident showed Deyoung his different medications, but thought it was strange that the hospital would send someone out to talk with him on Easter Sunday, the report states. The man said he was suspicious and noted that Deyoung did not show any identification. The man decided to report the incident to police.
Another resident said Deyoung told him that she was with a new company working with seniors and asked about his medication. She told him that most people don't take such a high dosage of Xanax when she saw the bottle of it, the incident report states. The man said he turned his back to retrieve a pen and turned back around to see Deyoung putting a bottle of medication back in the box where he stores it, according to the report. He and the officer determined that some of his Lortab was missing from the bottle, the report states.
A third resident said Deyoung came to her apartment on March 28, saying that she was with an agency trying to get seniors extra help, the report states. The woman said Deyoung asked her if she took any pain medication and asked to see the woman's medication but the woman refused to show it to her. Deyoung told the woman, "Your doctor said you are in a lot of pain and you aren't getting the right medication. My husband is … Dr. Torrison at Steadman Hawkins at Patewood. He recently had to do … surgery on my shoulder," the report states.
The woman said she didn't know Dr. Torrison. The next day, she called Steadman Hawkins and an employee said a Dr. Torrison works there but his wife was not affiliated with any senior assistance agency and did not go door-to-door soliciting, according to the report.
On April 1, the woman said Deyoung returned, saying she needed more information. The woman grew suspicious and went to another apartment to ask the resident to write down the tag number of Deyoung's Mercedes-Benz. The woman and another resident's daughter told Deyoung not to return.
According to the incident report, the residents targeted were able to pick Deyoung's photo from a lineup. They described her to police as well-dressed, driving a white Mercedes-Benz, the report states.
On Monday, officers obtained warrants and arrested Deyoung at her home without incident, according to the report. Deyoung said she had been arrested the previous day in Greenville and charged in similar incidents, and she said pretended to be a DSS worker.
During an interview with police, Deyoung told officers that she had had shoulder and sinus surgery and been prescribed pain medication, but now doctors won't prescribe it to her, the report states. She said she is an investment advisor and talked to the elderly residents about their finances and went into their homes with the intention of taking their medication, according to the report. She told officers that she was a victim of pain pill addiction, never intended to hurt anyone and needed to get help, the report states. She also said she sees a doctor at Steadman Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas in Greenville, which offers treatment for orthopedic injuries, and that's why she mentioned the clinic to one of the Snow Street residents, the report states.
Deyoung was jailed at the Greenville County Detention Center Monday and has been released. Her bond amount was unavailable Wednesday.


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Sanskrit-English Dictionary.
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Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary. From wikipedia: "Sir Monier Monier-Williams was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England. He studied, documented and taught Asian languages, and compiled one of the most widely used Sanskrit-English dictionaries…[, which] is still in print. It is also now available on CD-ROM and as the basis of the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon." Mac OS X application provided by monierwilliams.com
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this is a short setair book with telangana language. it was a 42 week column in andhrajyothy during 2004-05. i compiled this book on 28-aug-2005. it was released by mr. ravi prakash, ceo of tv9 at sundarayya vignana kendarm, baghlingampally, hyderabad.